U+2EB6 "⺶" CJK Radical Sheep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⺶
U+2EB6 "⺶" CJK Radical Sheep is a graphic component used in Chinese writing systems, representing the radical for "sheep" or "ram," often appearing as a simplified or variant form of the full character 羊 (yáng). It is part of the Kangxi Radicals block in Unicode, specifically used as a building block for more complex characters where the sheep radical conveys meanings related to sheep or by extension, concepts of flock, herd, or related domestic animals. This radical frequently appears in the left or top position of compound characters, contributing semantic hints to their definitions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EB6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Sheep |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⺶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⺶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBA 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EB6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2eb6 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Han |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Equivalent Unified Ideograph | 7F8A |
| Radical | Yes |